Why Taylor Swift Is Skipping the 2023 Met Gala

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Taylor Swift would've been a benignant mastermind astatine the 2023 Met Gala.

E! News confirms the "Maroon" singer—who's successful the mediate of her beloved Eras Tour—is not attending the May 1 reddish carpet event. Instead, she is getting acceptable for her record-breaking shows successful Nashville connected May 5, 6 and 7. 

Her besties Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds are besides skipping the Met Gala this year. (See each the stars who are attending the 2023 Met Gala here).

The Grammy victor has not been backmost to the Met Gala since 2016, erstwhile a then-bleached blonde Taylor served arsenic a co-host of the event. The 2016 Met Gala is besides erstwhile the creator is rumored to have connected with Joe Alwyn, arsenic she referenced successful her opus "Dress," singing, "Flashback erstwhile you met maine / Your buzzcut and my hairsbreadth bleached." 

The duo went connected to day for six years until precocious calling it quits.

While some the "Bejeweled" vocalist and the Conversations With Friends histrion person yet to formally code their split, Taylor antecedently opened up astir the pressure they faced passim their relationship.

During an October treatment astir her Midnights song "Lavender Haze," Taylor explained, "I guess, theoretically, erstwhile you're successful the lavender haze, you'll bash thing to enactment determination and not fto radical bring you down disconnected that cloud," she continued. "And I deliberation a batch of radical person to woody with this now, not conscionable similar 'public figures,' due to the fact that we unrecorded successful the epoch of societal media. And if the satellite finds retired that you're successful emotion with somebody, they're going to measurement successful connected it."

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"Like my narration for six years, we've had to dodge weird rumors, tabloid worldly and we conscionable disregard it," she continued. "And truthful this opus is benignant of astir the enactment of ignoring that worldly to support the existent stuff."

As Taylor enters a caller epoch successful her idiosyncratic life, let's instrumentality a look at all of the stars connected the Met Gala reddish carpet below!

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Pedro Pascal

In Valentino

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Kim Kardashian

In Schiaparelli

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Gigi Hadid

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Bad Bunny

In Jacquemus

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Jared Leto

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Kylie Jenner

In Jean Paul Gaultier

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Maluma

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Viola Davis

In Valentino

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Cara Delevingne

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Jennifer Lopez

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Lizzo

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Jenna Ortega

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Paris Hilton

In Marc Jacobs

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Anne Hathaway

In Atelier Versace

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Doja Cat

In Oscar de la Renta

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Billie Eilish

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Kendall Jenner

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Margot Robbie

In Chanel

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Bradley Cooper

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Janelle Monae

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Jessica Chastain

In Gucci

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Halle Bailey

In Gucci

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Pete Davidson

In Fendi

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Serena Williams

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Gabrielle Union

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Allison Williams

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Michelle Yeoh

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Vanessa Hudgens

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Lil Nas X

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Gisele Bundchen

In Chanel SS07 Couture

Watch Live From E!: Met Gala 2023 today, May 1, starting astatine 6 p.m. ET/3 p.m. PT.

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